Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study. — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
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